Brooke van Ruiswyk is an emerging artist based in Launceston, Tasmania. Van Ruiswyk’s practice depicts her close connection to the Tasmanian landscape, where her family has lived and worked as farmers for many generations. She was recently a finalist in the prestigious Glover Prize.
Her paintings are delicately executed using oil paint on canvas through layers and detail. A variety of brushes and palette knives are used to create rich textures and subtle gradients that seamlessly work together to capture a moody ambience.
The cooler seasons can feel prolonged and evoke feelings of isolation and loneliness. Van Ruiswyk embraces this experience as a way to truly see and appreciate her surroundings, believing that there is beauty and spiritual growth to be found in moments of solitude.
‘There is a deep connection to place, but also a sense of misplacement and humbling awareness of merely passing through. I am constantly trying to absorb and document my experience, taking photographs and capturing memories that I can then collage together in the studio. The resulting artworks are mostly fiction in nature; the psychological weight of the loneliness and isolation manifests itself as vast farmland under grey ominous skies.’
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Recent Exhibitions 2023 - Glover Prize, Evandale, Tasmania 2023 - The Henry Jones Art Prize, The Atrium Gallery 2023 - Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, Salon Des Refuses 2023 - Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery 2023 - Northern Exposure, Poimena Art Gallery 2023 - TATA Exhibition, QVMAG, Salamanca Art Centre 2022 - BlueThumb Art Prize, Landscape Award, BlueThumb 2022 - Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery 2022 - The Henry Jones Art Prize, The Atrium Gallery 2022 - The Doyle's Art Award, mudgeeraba, Queensland 2022 - Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery 2022 - The Butterfly Effect Art Auction, Poimena Art Gallery 2019 - Tasmanian Art Award at Eskleigh, Perth, Tasmania 2017 - Body of Work, Poimena Art Galler 2013 - Tasmanian Portrait Prize, Sawtooth Gallery, Devonport Regional 2013 - Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre 2010 - Tasmanian Portrait Prize, Salamanca Arts Centre, NEW Gallery, 2010 - The Atrium Gallery
Education 2010 – Current Art Teacher, various Tasmanian High Schools 2009 – 2010 Bachelor of Teaching, University of Tasmania, Launceston 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, School of Art University of Tasmania, Hobart 2005 – 2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Commendations & Projects: 2009 - Zonta International Award for Young Emerging Artist 2007 - Deans Roll of Excellence, University of Tasmania
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